The only word that names such a final or ultimate end is "happiness."

He knew the absolute beginning and the ultimate end.

But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends.

You know he believes that to be the ultimate end.

To those men and women in business - remember the ultimate end of your work - to make a better product, to create better lives.

Both emphasize people are be the ultimate ends but not means.

But death was the ultimate end to all living things, he recalled.

At whose expense and to what ultimate end is not altogether clear.

"The ultimate end of any ideology is totalitarianism," he said.

There are, of necessity, many trials, and few can reach the ultimate end.